rJava load error in RStudio/R after “upgrading” to OSX Yosemite

Question

I recently \"upgraded\" from OSX Mountain Lion to Yosemite and from R 3.1.3 to 3.2. Immediately after the upgrade, when I opened R or RStudio I got a pop-up message saying t

Answer 1

Following command works:

sudo ln -s $(/usr/libexec/java_home)/jre/lib/server/libjvm.dylib /usr/local/lib

After that, in RStudio, loading rJava works through loading of the "xlsx" package.

library("xlsx")

P.S. #1 Environment: Mac OS X El Capitan 10.11.3+ with RStudio 0.99.491+ and R 3.2.3+. (I've now tested this also on macOS Sierra (10.12) and R.3.3.1.)

P.S. #2 I find that openxlsx is much faster and doesn't rely on Java to work, so I'm now using that package. Hope that helps others.